Who: (Opens the door to find… no one) Hello…? Darn people playing doorbell ditch… Sees someone walk up (Shocked) What? What are you doing here?
(Who is suddenly tackled by five girls bound and gagged in seconds)
Evil wacko, a.k.a. KTS leader, a.k.a. #1: We, the kill Torrin Squad, a.k.a. the KTS have finally captured Who, told you if we waited we'd find her.
#5: I said that you liar. I also said that we could have tracked her down at anytime; she's not hard to find!
#3: Can we just get this over with? Please knowing he's here gives me the creeps
#1: Whatever… (Looks at Who) You are charged and convicted with the crime of creating the most annoying and hated, not to mention vile, evil, stupid, ugly…
#5: He's not that bad, I think his kind of cute.
#2: Are you insane? He's wicked, and manipulative, and he calls Kurama Princess!
#1: Who care what he says about Kurama? No one calls Hiei an insect and lives, not while I'm around!
#4: Well, I think calling him a porcupine was pretty funny.
#1: Traitor!
Torrin: (Walks into the room as the KTS argue amongst themselves. Raises An Eyebrow.) Honestly Virgin how long does it take to answer a door.
#1: It's the enemy get him!
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(A/N Oh my gosh, I can't believe it, an update, from me? Um… okay I know you all hate me and that's fine. No I'm not dead. Yes I should have updated sooner but there were extenuating circumstances, which I won't go into. But um… I'm updating now, hopefully it will be good I don't know. Well um… let me start before I lose my nerve. Um... by the way I made a few small adjustments to the first chapter.)
"Come on, this way" the blue haired ferry-girl Botan stated as she raised her hand and pointed to the left side of a forked path. She didn't hesitant a moment to weigh the options before making a decision, and hurrying on a reluctant Kuwabara down the path of yet another eerie looking corridor.
"Are you sure this is the right way?" Kuwabara could not help but ask. The boy was feeling apprehensive and really just wanted to turn back, or at least go down the path to the right that looked much more inviting. Botan looked over her shoulder, "The map doesn't lie, Kuwabara." The ferry-girl turned around fully displaying a small electronic device that had a map on its screen, and on the map was a pathway plotted out in blue, for the boy to see.
"Maybe it's busted" Kuwabara stated in a tone that showed even he didn't believe that statement, as he looked at the pale glow of the screen. Botan shook her head turning around to walk down the corridor Kuwabara followed without hesitation, if only out of a sense of duty to watch out for Botan. Or, maybe, it was because the thought of being alone in the place gave him the creeps.
As the pair made their way deeper down the strange hallway, it seemed as if they had taken a step back in time, or were walking through some ancient ruins. The stone walls were covered with moss, and broken-down. The floor which had been smooth and tiled was now just hard packed dirt. With each step the corridor grew darker. The halls had been lit with strange lanterns that adorned the walls and gave off a bluish-green glow. Now, those lanterns were now few and far between.
The tunnels, albeit eerie, were peaceful. In fact, despite the fact that they were sneaking through rather "dangerous territory," the pair had not had any trouble since being separated from Yusuke and the others on the upper levels. It seemed the tunnels they traveled down were indeed perfect for infiltration.
The two continued walking one for what seemed like an eternity. The tunnel ruins, once again, morphed into a more cave like setting. A crisp chill ran through the stilled air, and the sound of dripping water could be heard.
Structures hung from the ceiling and jettisoned from the floor, while small it was obvious they'd been growing for some time. Were it not for the lanterns on the walls, lit or not, the two would have sworn they weren't even walking down the same tunnel anymore. Still the map indicated that they destination was deeper down the tunnel.
An acrid stench suddenly drifted into the air. Around this time the lanterns, which had only sparely dotted the walls, had disappeared completely, or just were not shining. In any case, the only source of light or guidance was the small device Botan held; its screen glowed brightly as it could casting away some of the shadows.
Kuwabara quickly covered his nose, hiding it away from the offending odor with both of his hands. "Jeez what heck is that? Did something die here?" Kuwabara inquired, his voice coming out a bit muffled due to the positioning of his hands. The odor had the scent of mildew stagnant water and decay. "There may be a pond over the tunnels" Botan offered an explanation. Her nose was covered by her arm the dangling pink fabric of her kimono hid away the rest of her face.
"More like a sewer," Kuwabara groused half holding his breath, already starting to feel queasy from the smell. "I can't wait to get out of this place."
The walls slick with moister glistened in the pale light cast off from the device that Botan carried. Algae and what looked like rust stains lined the dampened walls. And puddles formed on the floor as well. All this was coupled with the darkness, cold, and that awful stench. The scent was impossible to get used to as when it seemed whenever the pair had gotten used to it the smell would become worse. "How much longer till we get out of here?" Kuwabara asked his feet shuffling though a thick and foul scented pool of what Kuwabara hoped was water.
Botan turned toward Kuwabara giving a slight shrug to indicate she was uncertain. As the light passed over the wall a reflective caught the eyes of ferry-girl.
"Kuwabara," Botan said pointing to the wall behind him, a look of curiosity on her face. Kuwabara turned toward the wall. The two were staring at what looked to be a wall mounted aquarium that had fallen into disuse. A violent crack ran though the glass. Water had been steadily escaped from the crack leaving the aquarium only half full of mucky green water. There was also a large bloated brown looking blob floating in the in the water.
Kuwabara, out of curiosity, walked forward to examine the thing in the water. He stared at, the blob see to respond but turning over to display and underside bearing a second head that was covered in bright orange; even in the darkness, eyes. Repulsed Kuwabara quickly retreated, to the other side of the tunnel until his back was pressed against the moist wall, his face displaying disgust. "W… what the heck is that thing?" Kuwabara asked fearfully flinching slightly. The blob of a creature had at one point been alive, and held a resemblance to a fish, but now...
Botan shook her head. Whatever it was it was long since dead. But, at least it explained the smell. "The demon that owns this place has been known to run experiments he's gotten in trouble for doing so. This might be one of his old failures, or successes." Kuwabara quivered, wanting to get out of the place more than ever. Something moist slimy and wriggly at least as far as Kuwabara could tell slide down the boy's neck and Kuwabara pushed away from the wall with a startled scream.
"What is it Kuwabara?" Boton startled by Kuwabara's reaction asked. The carrot-top ran his hand over the back of his neck then looked at it; green ooze, darkened by the poorly lit room, covered the boy's hand. Kuwabara turned a pale sickly shade flicking his hand. "I think I'm gonna be sick..."
Many more aquariums lined the walls as the two walked on some empty some fill with an overgrowth of algae, or the corpse of some unfortunate and misshapen aquatic creature, all bearing those strange orange eyes. Either way the apprehension of the pair grew tenfold, something wasn't right about this place.
"Not much further now" Botan stated offering a smile as she pointed to a light at end of the tunnel, she was quite relieved. Kuwabara more than a little excited himself quickened his pace wanting to get away from the dank tunnels as quickly as he could. His shoes were wet, he was chilled to the bone, and he swore he felt something crawling over him. Reaching the lit area, the two stared at a large door with a strange sea creature painted on it.
It seemed to be a painting of some mythical sea monster. It seemed to resemble a squid. One with far fewer tentacles instead of six it only had two long and cordlike tendrils that were thick at the end perhaps the size of a balled up fist.
"So this is the way out of here?" Kuwabara asked looking at the door a moment longer. Botan peered about a bit before spying a lever on the ground beside the door. She pointed at the lever. "That's probably our best bet." Kuwabara nodded in agreement quickly moving toward the lever. Wrapping his hands about the handle he gave a rough tug, to no avail. The lever didn't move. Taking in a deep breath the boy tugged sharply again. This time the lever gave a loud and angered yawn as it slide out of it fixed placed and toward the direction Kuwabara pulled it.
Two pairs of hopeful eyes looked toward the door, that didn't budge. Botan gave a defeated. "We'll just have to find another way in." Kuwabara rubbed his sore hands together, not able to do anything other than agree. As the two were about to give up any hope of getting through the door, there was a loud and agonized groan followed by a soft whine and a loud clink, obviously the sound of some not so far away metal gears slowly starting to turn. The sound echoed though the tunnel, both Kuwabara and Botan turned to look at the door at the advent of this new development.
At first the sound of the gears turned slowly, that same mournful whine and the loud echo as the metal of the gears clacked together. The mechanism obviously had not been used in some time. Soon the rhythmic whine and clink became a rapid clatter, and it seemed that the ground was trembling.
The door slowly slid upward opening revealing a room that was completely different from the darkened tunnels that Botan and Kuwabara had journeyed through. Wasting no time the two entered a circular-shaped room that was lit brightly by those blue lanterns. The room seemed to have no ceiling, only because of the fact that it seemed to go upward forever. Botan looked about the room in curiosity her eyes wide with surprise at how lovely the room was. In the very center of the room there was a bright pool of crystal blue water, is seemed the waters added to the brightness of the room, with a three trails of carefully placed circular structures standing out of the water, the one in the center being the largest of them.
Kuwabara, upon entering the room was just happy that the smell was gone. "So where do we go, now?" Kuwabara inquired; the room was defiantly a big change from the tunnels.
"Oh right" Botan snapped out of her revelry and looked curiously at the map, and then around the room. "There should be a door around here somewhere close by." Kuwabara joined in the search for this alleged door but the only one he could see was the one that they'd come through. Something soon quickly caught his eye an out of place looking bucket Botan seemed to be interested in the map at the moment, so Kuwabara decided to check it out. Upon lifting the bucket he caught wind of a sickly sweet scent, looking down into the bucket Kuwabara was hit with a distinct surprise. The contents of the bucket were staring up back at him. The carrot-top felt his eyes quirk in a display of agitated disgust.
"Kuwabara over here" Botan called at the moment she was gingerly making her way to the center of the room via the platforms she pointed to the center one. "I found the way out." Kuwabara snapped back to reality discarding the bucket; with very little care, as he let it fall to the floor. Several of the eyeballs slipped into the water sinking downward. A plum of putrid yellow-green water soon surfaced in the spot where the eyes had fallen.
"Wait up!" Kuwabara stated following Botan's movements soon the two were settles on the platform. Kuwabara looked down toward his feet. "Okay, so what now?" Botan simply smiled, pointing toward the vast expanse of space overhead. "Going up," the platform lit up and following the ferry girls command it started moving upward. Kuwabara a little startled nearly lost his balance and sent a sort of glare at the chuckling Botan.
"That wasn't funny!" Kuwabara looked over the edge and at the waters below, "I could have fallen"
"I'm sorry Kuwabara I couldn't help it" Botan stated still smiling though she had quieted her laughter. Kuwabara sat down on the slowly ascending platform. "So do you think Urameshi and the others are alright," the carrot-top finally ventured to ask. "Oh I'm sure, look at how easy it was for us. It must have been a breeze for them. Those three have probably already gotten the device and are waiting outside for us right now." Botan's voice was filled with optimism. Kuwabara gave a nod.
The ride upward seemed to be going without incidence until Kuwabara, for no reason that Botan could see tumbled over the edge of the platform, vanishing from her sight. "Kuwabara!" Botan called out fearfully looking over the edge but still unable to see the boy. The girl could hear nothing over the mechanical whirl of the ever elevating platform.
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Kuwabara awake to a sensation of floating his arms draped on a floating bit of debris from somewhere. The boy examined his surroundings as he pulled himself on the debris which he now identified as one of the platforms. The waters of the room had changed color no longer their crystal blue shade, but a sickly green color.
The waters churned about Kuwabara, rising up to fill the room up. Kuwabara remember the sensation of being pulled downward into off the rising platform, which had now disappeared along with Botan. Trying to pull himself up Kuwabara noticed a cord-like object wrapped about his leg. Kuwabara struggled to pull it off but it held tight.
"What is this thing?" The boy poked the cord, and it quivered. Uncoiling from Kuwabara's leg the strange creature hissed and bit the carrot-top's finger. Kuwabara pulled his hand away and glared at the little creature that bit him. "Why you little…" Kuwabara grabbed onto the creature's thin body with both hands.
With an unexpected strength the creature pulled back with a means to escape into the water, but Kuwabara held tightly. Thus the carrot-top was unceremoniously tugged into the water and downward until he lost his grip. The cord-like creature wrapped itself about Kuwabara's leg once again and Kuwabara, chocking for air as he was, was pulled upward and out of the water.
The cord-shaped creature turned out to be the appendage of another creature entirely. Kuwabara soaking wet, and hanging upside down, stared into a bulbous orange eye, and swallowed hard. For some reason the creature looked familiar though the carrot-top could not place where it was he had seen the thing at before. Then it hit him, the picture on the door.
For a moment the creature just held Kuwabara, his spirit sword still blazing in his hand, suspended in the air. Another cord-like tentacle rose from the water and poked Kuwabara's stomach, the boy could not help but chuckle. Quickly gaining his composure he looked at the creature angrily. "Hey put me down you ugly fish faced…" Kuwabara was interrupted as the creature began to shake him. The boy began to feel dizzy and nauseous, even when the creature stopped.
The next thing the carrot-top knew, he was immobile, looking toward the ceiling. A long, thick rough wet greenish-pick thing slide along the left side of Kuwabara's face and he trembled. The thing had just licked him of that he was sure. The creature opened its mouth wide intending to swallow a frightened Kuwabara whole. "Oh crap it's gonna eat me." Kuwabara said fearfully.
The creature brought the boy's head up to its mouth. Kuwabara's head was too large for its mouth. The creature tried a few more times to force Kuwabara's head into, it's tiny mouth but to no avail. Kuwabara could not help but laugh. "I'm too big for ya huh?" The tentacles wrapped about Kuwabara's body fell away, and he was hoisted back into the air by his ankle. Once again suspended upside down, and getting quite sick of it. The creature stared at Kuwabara.
"Ya can't eat me, might as well let me go" Kuwabara said to the creature though he was quite sure at this point that the thing did not understand a word he said. It blinked its large eye and looked downward toward the water. Kuwabara cast his own eyes down toward the water a shadow was emerging. Then out from the surface of the water Kuwabara could only make out a gapping hole, with row after row of sharp teeth.
The creature seemed amused when Kuwabara's eyes grew wide and he gave a small squeak from the surprise and fear. "No way am I gonna get eaten by some overgrown piece of sushi." Still hanging suspended upside down Kuwabara brought his hands level with his chest and the creatures large orange eye. The glow of his spirit sword shot from his hands. "Sword get longer!"
Kuwabara's words were followed by the agonized screech of the creature as its tentacles shrank back in shock and pain; green ooze falling from its no longer functioning eye. Kuwabara found himself being flung into the water. He surfaced quickly coughing up some of the putrid water, it tasted as bad as it looked. The creature failed it tentacles blinded and agonized by searing pain, it only sought revenge. Its ferocious attacks collided with the wall and water making everything tremble, and bring down heavy chunks of debris.
Giving another pained wail the creature sank underneath the water. Leaving Kuwabara to wonder, as he looked over the waters, where the creature had gone. All seemed calm until the water began to turn spinning about creating a whirlpool affect that Kuwabara, though he tried, found he could not escape. The carrot-top whirled around in the whirlpool helplessly being dragged down through the swirling vortex.
(A/N. Alright I know it's bad, I'm sorry. I promise it will be better next chapter for sure, I hope. Anyways, I'm sooooo sorry, not only 'cause this chapter was horrendous but also because it took me a lifetime to update. I just got writer's block sooooooo badly. But I had some help and a fellow writer kicked my worthless but back into gear. So, I apologize, big time for the late, which is an understatement, and crappy update. Anyways, yeah um please bear with me; I'm trying very, very hard. The good news is I'm going to update quicker the bad news it may all be garbage. But yeah. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Busyness, writer's block, and everything kept me from updating but I'm back, to be sure. Kinda, yeah)
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(Somewhere over the equator Who's evil place of refuge)
Torrin: (Tied up and sitting next to Who) Virgin, I had no idea you were into things like this…
Who: (Glares)
#1: Makes jokes now bat boy because we're gonna kill you.
Torrin: Moi?
#5: We're not really gonna kill him are we? I mean he's so hot! He's smart and got those dark blue eyes. And I love the way his hair falls into his face!
Torrin: I don't blame you onna.
#1: (Slaps #5) What's wrong with you? You're a Hiei fan, remember? He… (Points at smirking Torrin) is the anti-Hiei, therefore he must be destroyed.
#5: You're right, I can't believe I said that, but you're right. I don't know what came over me but I'm better now. The Bat dies!
